President-elect Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai Trump posted a behind-the-scenes video of Elon Musk's SpaceX's recent Starship rocket launch in Texas.
on video Posted Donald Trump Jr.'s daughter posted a video to X of herself on a private jet heading to a rocket launch with friends, which also featured her grandfather, father, and Musk.
After the rocket launch, Musk can be heard explaining to Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that “we'll only come back to earth if everything goes super green.” “Then there were some concerns about the tower, so we were ordered to land at sea.”
“Great. Can they use it again? Trump asked. “Can we get it from the ocean?”
“It will…probably explode,” Musk replied. “My guess is that it's probably going to explode. But that's okay. In fact, we're producing a better version in the factory over there.”
Asked how long it would take to build the “next” rocket, Musk replied, “We already have the next one,” adding that it's “better” than the one that just launched. Ta.
“So what's better?” Cruz asked.
“The specific next thing we have in store has a lot of small improvements,” Musk responded. “Next year there will be a major upgrade. It will have the version 3 engine, but it will look very different. It will be longer, have more thrust, and will have a new generation engine. will be installed.”
Mr. Musk's starship, that is reported The 400-foot-tall craft, “designed to land astronauts on the moon and transport crew members to Mars,” took off last Tuesday around 4 p.m., according to Reuters.
According to the newspaper, the “first stage booster” part of the rocket, called Super Heavy, was separated from the rocket's second stage, “Starship.”
The first stage booster failed to fall from its launch site onto a “large mechanical arm” on the tower, and “unexpectedly fell into the Gulf of Mexico,” the paper said.
“If it doesn't explode, we have a ship to bring it back,” Musk added. “And you can look it up and learn more.”
Musk added that the rocket was “just for learning.”
